Mason Stephenson is currently Managing Partner of the firm’s Atlanta office and one of the senior partners in King & Spalding’s Capital Transactions and Real Estate Practice Group of which he was Practice Group Leader for a number of years. Mr. Stephenson previously served as a member of the firm’s Policy Committee from 1995-1997.
During his forty years of practice, he has represented banks, credit companies, life insurance companies, pension funds and other institutional lenders and investors in consummating secured financings and equity investments in income properties, including office buildings, hotels, apartments and industrial properties. He has extensive experience in the formation of partnerships and the workout, restructure and foreclosure of real estate investments, including both loan and partnership relationships. In addition, Mr. Stephenson has represented investors in the acquisition and financing of multi-state portfolios of financial and real estate assets.
Mr. Stephenson received his B.A., cum laude, in 1968 from Davidson College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and his J.D. in 1971 from The University of Chicago Law School where he was an Associate Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review.
Mr. Stephenson served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Estate Section of the State Bar of Georgia from 1989 until 1997 and previously served as Chairman of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Real Estate Section (1981-1982). He is a frequent lecturer on commercial real estate and ethics topics. The American College of Real Estate Lawyers elected Mr. Stephenson as a member in 1993. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1991 and was recently named the 2009 Best Lawyers Atlanta Real Estate Lawyer of the Year. In addition, he has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in the real estate field by Chambers U.S.A., Legal 500, The International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers, Georgia Trend Legal Elite and Atlanta magazine Georgia Super Lawyers. Mr. Stephenson currently serves as a member of the Visiting Committee of The University of Chicago Law School, the Boards of Directors of Central Atlanta Progress and Midtown Alliance and the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
